2019 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	PUB	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Stanford University Stanford University United States	343.4	67.5	91.4	74.2	83.1	86.6
2	Harvard University Harvard University United States	334.4	69.6	86.2	79.7	62.6	100.0
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	331.1	79.4	84.3	87.1	100.0	50.0
4	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	307.2	71.8	72.9	70.9	61.7	86.6
5	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	305.5	62.9	80.4	67.5	48.8	100.0
6	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	301.3	63.0	77.6	75.3	45.6	100.0
7	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	282.5	65.0	77.2	83.7	52.8	70.7
8	Princeton University Princeton University United States	274.4	44.0	92.8	79.0	35.3	86.6
8	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	274.4	61.7	69.7	76.7	57.0	70.7
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	272.6	85.0	81.8	69.7	91.9	0.0
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	271.7	52.2	85.0	76.9	48.4	70.7
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	269.2	100.0	78.5	64.9	77.7	0.0
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	268.1	69.6	77.9	86.5	42.1	61.2
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	261.6	65.0	84.9	70.6	36.3	61.2
15	Technical University Munich Technical University Munich Germany	257.2	47.0	75.7	83.0	31.3	86.6
16	Peking University Peking University China	250.7	82.3	79.3	70.8	75.0	0.0
17	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	250.6	85.3	74.7	67.1	77.2	0.0
18	University of Wageningen University of Wageningen Netherlands	247.4	92.9	84.5	87.4	52.5	0.0
19	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	247.2	54.1	78.5	81.8	27.5	70.7
20	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	245.0	58.6	71.3	65.9	40.7	61.2
21	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	239.7	86.8	78.0	81.6	58.6	0.0
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	237.3	39.4	97.0	75.6	35.8	50.0
23	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	230.4	63.4	86.2	88.7	62.9	0.0
24	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	230.0	84.5	71.6	64.1	61.1	0.0
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	226.9	67.8	77.9	68.5	67.6	0.0
26	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	221.4	63.9	78.0	66.5	66.2	0.0
27	University of Washington University of Washington United States	221.1	66.0	83.7	69.3	57.6	0.0
28	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	220.7	70.8	87.1	86.5	45.6	0.0
29	Duke University Duke University United States	220.5	60.5	81.1	73.8	64.1	0.0
30	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	220.3	65.3	69.3	77.1	70.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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